Christine McNair's spring readings: Wolfville, Ottawa, Toronto, St. Catharines, Calgary, Regina, Vancouver + Hamilton

above/ground press author Christine McNair is doing a spring tour, with dates across Canada throughout the next four months. You should totally go hear her, if you are able.

She's touring predominantly for her first trade poetry collection, Conflict (BookThug, 2012), but copies of her collaborative chapbook with rob mclennan, Prelude: selections from a collaboration (2012) are still available. You can also check out an above/ground press broadside of hers, here.

WOLFVILLE, NS: Friday March 1, 2013
Authors@Acadia
Where: Acadia University, Wolfville, NS
Vaughan Memorial Library, 4pm
http://valleyevents.ca/event?id=20740

OTTAWA, ON: Sunday March 17, 2013
VerseFest: A World of Poetry in Ottawa
Christine McNair, Ken Babstock and Anne Simpson
Where: Mercury Lounge, 56 Byward Market Sq, Ottawa, 4:00 PM
http://www.versefest.ca/2013/schedule/sunday/

TORONTO, ON: Wednesday April 10, 2013
Pivot Reading Series
Christine McNair with Roseanne Carrara and Jessica Hiemstra.
Where: The Press Club, 850 Dundas Street West, Toronto, ON, 8:00 PM
Hosted by Jacob McArthur Mooney.
http://pivotreadings.ca/

ST CATHARINES, ON: Friday April 26, 2013
In The Soil Arts Festival Presents Christine McNair and Mark Goldstein with other readers and musical guests: TBA
Where: Niagara Artists Centre, 354 St. Paul Street, St. Catharines, ON, 8:00 PM
Hosted by: Eric Schmaltz
http://www.inthesoil.on.ca/

CALGARY, AB: Thursday May 9, 2013
filling Station’s Flywheel Reading Series presents Christine McNair, author of Conflict and Sandra Ridley with other readers TBA.
Where: Pages Books on Kensington, 1135 Kensington Road NW, Calgary, AB, 7:30 PM
http://www.fillingstation.ca/flywheel

REGINA, SK: Monday May 13, 2013
Vertigo Reading Series presents Christine McNair, author of Conflict and Sandra Ridley with other readers TBA.
Where: Crave Kitchen + Wine Bar, 1925 Victoria Avenue, Regina, SK, 7:30 PM
Hosted by: Tara Dawn Solheim
http://vertigoreadingseries.wordpress.com/

VANCOUVER, BC: Tuesday May 14, 2013
Real Vancouver Writers’ Reading Series presents Christine McNair and Sandra Ridley with other readers TBA.
Where: TBA, Vancouver, BC, 8:00 PM
Hosted by: Sean Cranbury
http://realvancouverwriters.org/

ST. CATHARINES, ON: Saturday June 29, 2013
Niagara Literary Arts Festival Presents BookThug Author Night
Featuring readings by: Mark Goldstein, Beatriz Hausner, Christine McNair, Shannon Maguire, David Dowker, bill bissett, Head Thug Jay Millar and more
Where: Mahtay Cafe, 241 St. Paul Street, St. Catharines, ON
Time: TBA PM
http://nlaf.jigsy.com/

HAMILTON, ON: Sunday November 3, 2013
The LitLive Reading Series presents Christine McNair with other readers TBA
Where: The Homegrown Hamilton Cafe, on the 1st Floor of the Skydragon Centre, 27 King William Street, Hamilton, ON, 7:30 PM
http://litlive.blogspot.ca/